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05-15-2010, 09:36 AM
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The Official Xbox Magazine was recently released, with a huge feature on Call of Duty: Black Ops. To check out the full scans of each page, just click the pictures below!
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Here's a summary of the details from codblackopsnews.com, they've written it perfectly:
<h2>General</h2>
<ul>
<li>OXM reckons, unsurprisingly, that this will be ‘one of this year’s very biggest, and best’ games</li>
<li>The graphics, as we saw in the teaser trailer, are amazing – in particular building are demolished brilliantly and ‘dynamic shadows’ that build tension</li>
<li>‘Black Ops has a different, grubbier vibe to MW2′</li>
<li>Treyarch are approaching the game as ‘3 games in one’ – single player, co-op, and multiplayer</li>
<li>There’s ‘dedicated co-op’, suggesting a departure from WaW – Treyarch ‘changed the subject’ when asked about zombies <img src='https://www.codblackopsnews.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt='
' class='wp-smiley' /> </li> <li>Treyarch have taken ‘creative risks’</li>
<li>There are more than 200 people working on Black Ops</li>
<li>The difference between World at War and Black Ops is like the difference between CoD2 and CoD4</li>
</ul>
<h2>Campaign</h2>
<ul>
<li>You’re a member of SOG (Studies and Operations Group) working in deniable ops during the Cold War – we knew that.</li>
<li>There’s fighting in ‘Vietnam, the frosty Russian mountains, the Laotian undergrounds and everything in between’</li>
<li>Naturally, you’ll be fighting the North Vietnamese Army</li>
<li>In ‘WMD’, the mission USA Today played, you are indeed controlling the SR-71, and you issue orders to soliders down below</li>
<li>In ‘Victor Charlie’, you start off in a crashed helicopter in the Huong River, and make your way upstream, swimming, with only a knife</li>
<li>In ‘Payback, you’re in a <strong>fully-controllable </strong>helicopter – you drive it and shoot it</li>
</ul>
<h2>Gameplay</h2>
<ul>
<li>‘Stealth plays a big part’</li>
<li>Rapelling: you’ll be able to feel ‘each crash back into the cliffside with a bone-jarring thud’</li>
<li>You can call in air support to decimate NVA buildings</li>
<li>Your player has a voice, unlike other CoD games</li>
</ul>
<h2>Weapons</h2>
<ul>
<li>The crossbow was confirmed</li>
<li>As was the ‘dragonbreath’ flame-throwing rounds for the SPAS-12 (also confirmed)</li>
<li>The M202 ‘Grim Reaper’ rocket launcher was name-dropped</li>
<li>And, (thanks to WePlayCoD), the guy in the full-page picture is holding a MAC-10</li>
<li>Vehicles return, ‘but not the way you remembered them from WaW’</li>
</ul>
<h2>Multiplayer</h2>
<ul>
<li>Multiplayer began development early on, such that some single player levels are based on multiplayer maps</li>
<li>A beta’s ‘being considered’</li>
<li>We’ve heard it before, but Treyarch will be improving multiplayer from suggestions, and acknowledged the under-the-map glitches that plagued WaW’s launch</li>
<li>Matchmaking for consoles has been improved (although <a href="https://www.codblackopsnews.com/2010/05/14/dedicated-servers-to-return-in-cod-black-ops/" target="_blank">as we learned earlier</a>, PCs will almost certainly get dedicated servers)</li>
<li>Create a Class 2.0 – improved character customization includes kit and appearance items!</li>
</ul>
So overall, a few bits we knew before, a few we kinda guessed, and a few genuinely exciting prospects. I've always liked the stealth missions, so I'm hoping stealth really does play a 'big part' like they say. Customization for Create A Class sounds great, as does a fully controllable helicopter. I honestly can't wait.
New video release with a few seconds of new footage, the world première should be interesting. Cheers to Shadow for the heads up:
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New video release with a few seconds of new footage, the world première should be interesting. Cheers to Shadow for the heads up:
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i just want it already ... and if it has zombie ZOMG !!! having some of the guns that you got in MW2 now to blast the shit out of the undead looks like this is going to be a hrad game to follow.
05-15-2010, 04:37 PM
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Cryptic
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Originally posted by jbot
You sure make it hard to not want to but the next COD game. Great news Caspa, as always.
Sure does. I see the AUG is making a return.
Looks like I'll be buying this game, but this will most likely be the last Call of Duty I buy. I am not too keen on the idea of the Action/Adventure genere that the Call of Duty series is taking after this one, plus I am not a fan of Playstation Move. So this will most likely be the last PS3 game I buy.
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